Usually means: Containers designed to hold items.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. receptacles: Merriam-Webster
  2. receptacles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. receptacles: Vocabulary.com
  4. Receptacles, receptacles: Wordnik
  5. receptacles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. receptacles: Wiktionary
  7. receptacles: Dictionary.com
  8. receptacles: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. receptacles: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. receptacles: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. receptacles: Encyclopedia

(Note: See receptacle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (receptacle)

noun:  A container.
noun:  (botany) The part of the flower stalk (peduncle or pedicel) to which the floral parts are attached; a thalamus, a torus.
noun:  A condensed rachis of a capitate or umbellate inflorescence at the end of the peduncle, to which all of the florets or pedicels are attached.
noun:  (phycology) A structure at the end of a branch of an alga containing conceptacles (reproductive organs).
noun:  (zoology) An organ that receives and holds a secretion.
noun:  (electricity, US) A contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of an attachment plug (typically by receiving the plug's prongs) to supply portable appliances or equipment.
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